Aloha!

The adventures did not waste with time with the whole happening thing :)

Flight from Houston to Honolulu started it off. We were sitting at the gate for a good 20 minutes before the pilot (who turned out to be a very bad orator) came on the intercom and says something to the effect of "Yea folks.. umm.. those little underneath things above your head are the air conditioning... they're not working.. we're trying to figure out what's out.. in the mean time were gonna hafta get all of y'all off the plane 'cause it's gonna get over a hundred degrees in here". lol. Sat in the airport for an hour or so while they fixed that.

While in Houston, I left several messages with my travel coordinator to tell her my itinerary so as to be met at the HNL airport. However, her office was apparently closed, because when I got here there was nobody waiting or me. So my Pathfinders/ Navy SEAL training took over and I knew I had to act fast or be eaten by sharks. Probably. So I tried calling a friend back home to get the contact number of the person here, but PNC bank said to themselves "Hey! Someone stole this guys identity and is using his card in Hawaii to make calls! We better cancel the card!" So then I couldn't make calls to cell phones t get contact info. BTW.. Dear PNC. If someone were to steal my identity I'm not worried because they would probably return it before too long. Anyway. So I headed for the Yellow Pages with the thought of "Gotta find some Adventists". Problem was, by that time (Friday afternoon), all the church offices were closed. So I got a taxi and told him to go to Honolulu Central Adventist Church and showed him the address (their answering machine had said something about a Friday vespers). So he said he knew where it was and we went there. After he drops me off and I'm talking with a guy I meet there, it slowly becomes evident that this is not the right place. "Is this even an Adventist church? No this is Honolulu Central Union Church!" Oooooh. So he offered to take me to the right church. When we got there, some lady was in the sanctuary playing the piano and she made some calls and eventually I showed up at the school where I was headed and had to jump a fence cause it was way late. Story of my life is this: never a dull moment haha.

Today we went to the Kailua church, they had a great praise team and I did a little jamming with them after the service haha then we went for a hike and drive, tok a bunch of pictures which will be posted soom (when I do a post and have the dump cable handy haha probably when I get to Saipan on the 5th).

Then this evening, we went out to eat and people tried to sell us drugs and prostitutes, I had some mediocre Mahimahi, aaand ate a fantastic mango. Big day.

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Postscript..

I should explain what was the cause for the confusion in my traveling. Due to having purchased tickets oh, a day or so before leaving, I hadn't given my flight itinerary to the travel coordinator. When I left it was before their offices opened, so while in Houston, I made several attempts to contact her which obviously failed. Ergo, adventures ensued :p